MR GRADY'S DAILY BLOG: AMERICAS EARLY BIRD NEWS

Sunday, January 24, 2016

AMERICAS EARLY BIRD NEWS

WALK RIGHT IN: Kennedy Airport allowed passengers to exit without going through Customs for second time in recent months

Passengers arriving at Kennedy Airport on an international flight were allowed to exit the busy hub without going through Customs.

5 WORST STORMS IN NYC HISTORY: Weekend's blizzard reach historic levels with second heaviest snow total since 1869

Saturday's killer blizzard could go down at one of the five worst snow storms in New York City history.

At least 18 dead, hundreds of thousands without power as rampaging blizzard paralyzes East Coast with over a foot of snow

An epic winter storm clobbered the East Coast Saturday.

'We are seeing more violence': 17-year-old charged with murder in mass shooting at school, home that killed four in western Canada

Police charged a 17-year-old boy with four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder in a mass shooting in Canada.

Tina Fey back on SNL to mock Palin's Trump endorsement

LUPICA Yoenis Cespedes deal is winning move by Sandy Alderson and Mets

You always have to start with the economy of baseball, where you can hardly ever spend your way to the World Series.

EXCLUSIVE 'EMBARRASSMENT': Evidence vanishes in case of two NYPD officers killed by black radicals in East Village in 1972

NYPD investigators will mark the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Police Officers Rocco Laurie and Greg Foster this week.

THEY WERE TRYING TO HELP! N.C. motorist stranded in blizzard accused of killing good Samaritan

A North Carolina driver stranded during Friday's deadly blizzard shot and killed a good Samaritan who tried to help, officials said.

Andie's first class rant about getting bumped to coach

see video Florida cop who played hoops with kids is back ... this time with Shaq!

Shaquille O’Neal shocked a group of kids in Florida when he showed up to play some street ball — in the same spot where a cop shot hoops with some kids in a viral video.

Former upstate pol, 74, allegedly stalked 24-year-old woman because she owed him $45,000

A former county legislator in upstate New York has pleaded guilty to coercion after allegedly stalking a woman 50 years his junior.

Greek protestors call for eased border restrictions

A day after 46 migrants drowned, protesters demonstrated Saturday at a Greek border town.

Dutch lawmaker hands out self-defense spray to women

A firebrand Dutch lawmaker is handing out self-defense sprays to women fearful of immigrants.

Bethenny disses Kmart clerks who don't speak English

Burials begin for victims of Burkina Faso terrorist attack

Burials have begun for the 10 Burkina Faso nationals killed in last week’s attack in Ouagadougou.

NYPD searching for woman who bit, punched rider on 1 train

Police are looking for a woman who punched and bit another woman on a southbound No. 1 train in upper Manhattan.

MOMMY ISSUES: Trump makes fun of Jeb Bush for campaign ad featuring Barbara Bush ‘where he desperately needed mommy to help him’

The former First Lady's slights in a new campaign ad for her son did not go unnoticed by the thin-skinned real estate mogul.

STAY PUT, CREEP! Parole denied for Charles Manson pal Bruce Davis, convicted in 1969 slayings

Bruce Davis was convicted in slayings of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea.

Fashion Week event will have old school TV look

ON THE MARKET! Zimmerman’s divorce from wife Shellie finalized

Following the conclusion of his 2013 murder trial for killing Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman’s wife Shellie filed for divorce and — after 2-1/2 years later — it’s finalized, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

NOT-SO-FILTHY RICH! British woman claims to have $47M lotto ticket, but it's washed out

A British woman says she has the winning ticket to an unclaimed $47 million Lotto jackpot – but her ticket has been through the wash.

'I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn't lose votes,' says Trump

In perhaps his most outrageous comments yet, the GOP front-runner insisted Saturday that his fans are so loyal they'd stick by him even if he carried out a massacre in the heart of Manhattan.

North Korea's detention of U.S. college student remains a mystery

A University of Virginia student's detention by North Korea remains a mystery.

Houston boy, 4, to be buried in Iron Man suit after accidentally shooting himself in head with grandfather's gun

Bryson Hernandez was staying with his grandparents when he got hold of the gun and shot himself in the head Monday night.

Cannon calls Mariah and new billionaire beau 'great couple'

Teacher, mayor's daughter among four killed in shooting at Canadian school

Four people were killed after a shooting Friday afternoon at a rural Canadian school.

Former Michigan cop raped his teenage relative while watching 'Family Guy' with her, she testifies

A Michigan police officer touched his teenage relative’s genitals and later raped her while watching “Family Guy,” she testified Wednesday.

EXCLUSIVE FERRY LITIGIOUS! Staten Island Ferry deckhand, who's already pocketed $600G in settlements, sues city for $45M

It might be cheaper for the city to put this guy in drydock.

Parents arrested after boy left at home gets stuck in toilet

Rashaan Cuffee and Justice Chance, both 20, were charged with child endangerment after their Canton neighbors heard the 20-month-old crying.

'She’s beating everybody up all the time': Woman who triggered subway brawl in Bronx is 'mentally ill,' in-law says

The instigator of a videotaped subway brawl that left her husband battered on the floor of a Bronx train is nothing but bad news, according to one of her spouse’s aunts.

Autos

TEST DRIVE and REVIEW: 2016 Cadillac CTS-V

The Cadillac CTS-V has dapper good looks and outrageous capability, but does the ultimate performance Cadillac have a one-track mind?

2016 BMW 340i xDrive Sedan REVIEW and TEST DRIVE

The best just got better with the BMW 340i xDrive Sedan

10 Winter driving safety tips to battle any blizzard

Follow these simple rules and stop winter driving from sending a chill down your spine.

Driving stick? Pros and cons for manual transmissions

With the proliferation of automatic transmissions and continuously variable transmissions fitted with shift paddles and the like, finding a bonafide manual transmission in just about any car is almost like finding a needle in a haystack.

The 2015 Honda Civic is safe, dependable and on sale

Though the media and industry were generally unkind to the ninth-generation Civic, it is a good car.

The most exotic, luxurious, and incredible cars of 2015 - PHOTOS

2015 was a record-setting year for the automobile, from muscle cars to super cars. Here are our favorite rides from the year.

New York

Bronx apartment fire leaves woman critically injured

A fire in a 24-story apartment complex in the Bronx leaves a woman critically injured early Sunday, a FDNY spokesman said.

NYPD searching for man who demanded sex act from Queens teen

The man with the knife grabbed an 18-year-old woman in Queens and demanded she have sex with him — then ran off when she refused.

LIVE RADAR Track powerful blizzard as it hammers East Coast

A potentially historic blizzard is walloping the East Coast.

Woman's body found washed up on East River in Queens

It was unclear how the woman died, or how long she had been dead.

Woman jailed for swindling nonprofit organization for $300G

A Manhattan woman who used her nonprofit to enrich herself was sentenced to 1-to-3 years in prison Friday.

LATEST FROM AROUND NEW YORK

Brooklyn cops use smart phone to catch armed thief

A pair of Brooklyn cops grabbed an armed thief — thanks to their state-of-the-art department issued cell phones, officials said.

Erik Spro McWilliams, brother of Daily News staffer, loses battle with cancer at 57

McWilliams, fondly known to his patients as Dr. Erik, ran a practice out of his own healing arts center, Therapeutic Bodywork, in Santa Monica, Calif., where he lived for the past 14 years.